Video Understanding papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Video Understanding went from 319 papers in 2023 to 832 in 2026, roughly 2.6x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Video Understanding work: 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026, 46% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Image Generation, is up 2.2x versus 2.6x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Articulation in Prime: Primitive-Based Articulated Object Understanding from a Single Casual Video
• ICML 2026A Single Layer to Explain Them All: Understanding Massive Values in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2026Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
• CVPR 20264D-RGPT Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillation
• NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
• ICML 2025$\infty$-Video: A Training-Free Approach to Long Video Understanding via Continuous-Time Memory Consolidation
• ICLR 2025Answer, Assemble, Ace: Understanding How LMs Answer Multiple Choice Questions
• CVPR 20254D-Fly: Fast 4D Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
• NeurIPS 2024$E^3$: Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
• ICML 2024Enhancing Sufficient Dimension Reduction via Hellinger Correlation
• ICLR 2024Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
• CVPR 2024Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
• NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
• ICML 2023Dissecting the Effects of SGD Noise in Distinct Regimes of Deep Learning
• ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
• CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
• NeurIPS 2026AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
• ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
• ICLR 2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
• CVPR 2026Accelerating Streaming Video Large Language Models via Hierarchical Token Compression

All Video Understanding papers

431 papers, page 8 of 9

351. NeurIPS 2024Harmony4D: A Video Dataset for In-The-Wild Close Human Interactions
352. NeurIPS 2024HAWK: Learning to Understand Open-World Video Anomalies
353. NeurIPS 2024HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Interpretable Egocentric Video-Language Model
354. NeurIPS 2024HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding
355. NeurIPS 2024Human-level shape inferences: A benchmark for evaluating the 3D understanding of vision models
356. NeurIPS 2024Identifying and Solving Conditional Image Leakage in Image-to-Video Diffusion Model
357. NeurIPS 2024II-Bench: An Image Implication Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
358. NeurIPS 2024IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos
359. NeurIPS 2024Intruding with Words: Towards Understanding Graph Injection Attacks at the Text Level
360. NeurIPS 2024Is Behavior Cloning All You Need? Understanding Horizon in Imitation Learning
361. NeurIPS 2024JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
362. NeurIPS 2024LAVIB: A Large-scale Video Interpolation Benchmark
363. NeurIPS 2024Learnability Matters: Active Learning for Video Captioning
364. NeurIPS 2024Learning an Actionable Discrete Diffusion Policy via Large-Scale Actionless Video Pre-Training
365. NeurIPS 2024Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration
366. NeurIPS 2024LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding
367. NeurIPS 2024MambaSCI: Efficient Mamba-UNet for Quad-Bayer Patterned Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging
368. NeurIPS 2024MambaTree: Tree Topology is All You Need in State Space Model
369. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
370. NeurIPS 2024MMBench-Video: A Long-Form Multi-Shot Benchmark for Holistic Video Understanding
371. NeurIPS 2024MoTE: Reconciling Generalization with Specialization for Visual-Language to Video Knowledge Transfer
372. NeurIPS 2024Motion Graph Unleashed: A Novel Approach to Video Prediction
373. NeurIPS 2024Moving Off-the-Grid: Scene-Grounded Video Representations
374. NeurIPS 2024Multiview Scene Graph
375. NeurIPS 2024NeuroClips: Towards High-fidelity and Smooth fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction
376. NeurIPS 2024NVRC: Neural Video Representation Compression
377. NeurIPS 2024Octopus: A Multi-modal LLM with Parallel Recognition and Sequential Understanding
378. NeurIPS 2024OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding
379. NeurIPS 2024On Learning Multi-Modal Forgery Representation for Diffusion Generated Video Detection
380. NeurIPS 2024OnlineTAS: An Online Baseline for Temporal Action Segmentation
381. NeurIPS 2024OW-VISCapTor: Abstractors for Open-World Video Instance Segmentation and Captioning
382. NeurIPS 2024Precipitation Downscaling with Spatiotemporal Video Diffusion
383. NeurIPS 2024Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation
384. NeurIPS 2024ReVideo: Remake a Video with Motion and Content Control
385. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting, Benchmarking and Understanding Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation
386. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
387. NeurIPS 2024SeeClear: Semantic Distillation Enhances Pixel Condensation for Video Super-Resolution
388. NeurIPS 2024ShareGPT4Video: Improving Video Understanding and Generation with Better Captions
389. NeurIPS 2024Sharpness-Aware Minimization Activates the Interactive Teaching's Understanding and Optimization
390. NeurIPS 2024SILENCE: Protecting privacy in offloaded speech understanding on resource-constrained devices
391. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
392. NeurIPS 2024Slot-VLM: Object-Event Slots for Video-Language Modeling
393. NeurIPS 2024SlowFocus: Enhancing Fine-grained Temporal Understanding in Video LLM
394. NeurIPS 2024Splatter a Video: Video Gaussian Representation for Versatile Processing
395. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start
396. NeurIPS 2024Streaming Long Video Understanding with Large Language Models
397. NeurIPS 2024SyncVIS: Synchronized Video Instance Segmentation
398. NeurIPS 2024Talking Heads: Understanding Inter-Layer Communication in Transformer Language Models
399. NeurIPS 2024TAPVid-3D: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D
400. NeurIPS 2024The Importance of Online Data: Understanding Preference Fine-tuning via Coverage

FAQ

How many Video Understanding papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,261 in total: 319 in 2023, 431 in 2024, 679 in 2025, 832 in 2026.

How many Video Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 229 Video Understanding papers, versus 222 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 148 Video Understanding papers, versus 95 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 114 Video Understanding papers, versus 64 the year before.

How many Video Understanding papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 341 Video Understanding papers, versus 298 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Video Understanding papers?

CVPR, with 1,037 papers from 2023 to 2026.